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3dSen is a unique emulator that converts your favorite NES games - both classic and modern homebrew - into Full 3D & allows you to play it in realtime.

Highlight features:

• Playing NES games in 3D from different perspectives
• Steam Input
• Zero Input Lag
• Save State
• Dynamic Skyboxes
• Support of NTSC System

Ever growing list of supported games:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1147940/discussions/0/1640927858845729617/

List of supported games

• Arkanoid
• Balloon Fight
• Batman
• Battle City
• Battle Kid
• Bomberman
• Bubble Bobble
• Castlevania
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
• Circus Charlie
• City Connection
• Contra
• Dig Dug
• DonkeyKong
• DonkeyKong 3
• Donkeykong JR
• DrMario
• Duck Hunt
• Duck Tales
• Elevator Action
• Excitebike
• Flappy Bird
• Galaga
• Goonies
• Gyromite
• Hogan's Alley
• Ice Climber
• Journey to Silius
• Kungfu
• Legacy Of The Wizard
• Legend of Kage
• Legend of Zelda
• Lode Runner
• Mappy
• Mario Bros.
• Mega Man 1
• MegaMan 2
• Metroid
• Micro Mages
• Pacman
• Pinball
• Pooyan
• Popeye
• Road Fighter
• Shadow Of Ninja - Kage
• Shatterhand
• Super Bat Puncher
• Super Mario Bros.
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Tetris Nintendo
• Tetris Tengen
• TwinBee
• Urban Champion
• Wild GunMan
• Wrecking Crew
• Yie Ar Kung-Fu
• Zooming Secretary

VR version

 

[RobotXTaisen]

Holy shit, awesome!

 

[rofif]

This is impressive but why

 

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[CamHostage]

This is impressive but why

I'd say because the games play exactly the same, but with augmentation options that make games look more appealing to some people. The gameplay runs on the underlying NES emuator, while the graphics display with extrapolated 3D (voxels, I assume,) in the place of sprites and backgrounds. And so, that's neat. Not necessary, not "faithful", but fun and different and appealing if you're looking to spice up old games.

Sometimes it's garish and are there to show off, like the extra layers added to parallax in Adventure Island or the background replacement in SMB3. Sometime the mod is radically transformative, like the Spy Hunter viewpoint shift (there's also a Zelda side-view mod that makes it look like 3D Dot Game Heroes.) Other times, changes can be very subtle and just at the edge of perception, like just adding a little liquid wobble to the lava in Super Mario or showing the ladders in Mega Man recessed a bit. There's a lot that can be done to some games to make them radically different and a lot of things to make them subtly different in a way that feels modern even though the games are 30+ years old.

(I'm not sure how the release product came out, but the initial idea was that there would be settings files downloadable for different games, and users could choose from multiple settings per game, to fit their interests, or make their own MODs to enhance games in the way that they prefer. So if you like the Zelda that has the crazy side-on view, choose that, or if you like it mostly the same but with that little bit of dimension and shadowing in the dungeons and on items, go that route instead.)

Point is, it is all optional, and it doesn't 'affect' gameplay (unless the viewpoint or effect is too distracting to control.) There are now plenty of emulators out there that play games perfectly as you remember them; that job is pretty much done (and in the small inches towards infinity that still have to be crawled to reach perfection, other emulator developers are still chasing that goal.) This one plays games differently, and if you would like that instead, now you have that choice.